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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
No body knows how much of it is real income lost, but some of it is.
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Absolutely, but to say every download is lost income is false.
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downloading and listening, or viewing or reading files that one did not pay for is a clear violation of copyright.
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Yep, I never said otherwise.
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Reading a work that you downloaded without the author's permission without paying for it is stealing (even if you would never have bought the book). Yes, I know you are going to start spitting out legal crap, but it doesn't change the fact morally that you have used something you have no right to use (kind of like borrowing someone's car without their permission)
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No, it is nothing like borrowing someone's car without their permission. Yet again you are trying to think of intellectual property in terms of physical property laws. That doesn't work. I don't know if you just don't understand the difference, or if you are intentionally trying to blur the lines between the two.
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It may not meet your narrow definition of stealing, but it does mine.
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It certainly doesn't meet the legal definition.